Back To The Futon
Paul Kerensa
Smirnoff Underbelly, Aug 3-27 (not 14)
**
Back to the Future is the best film ever made and - great Scot! - that’s a fact. The Delorean, the Flux Capacitor, the Libyan terrorists, the dubious integral incest plot - Paul Kerensa relives it all, making him only the second ginger bloke to play Marty McFly (remember Eric Stoltz, anybody?).

He’s a likeable chap, self-depreciating and endearing, and the footage of his time travel reconstruction is truly inspired. The trouble is that despite BTTF being the king of all family features, it ultimately doesn’t garner enough material to sustain the show comfortably.

The gags can be hit and miss and the references to Parkinson’s Disease doesn’t sit easily with Kerensa’s nice guy persona.

by Jane Buffham